Kabutr Lets You Read and Update Twitter from Your Mailbox

If you're the type of person who just can't live without Twitter, Kabutr might be the Web app for you.

If you're the type of person who just can't live without Twitter, or start wondering when you're in meetings or away from a Web connection what's going on and what other people are posting, Kabutr might be the Web app for you. Once you grant the service access to your account, it will watch your Twitter stream and send it to your e-mail account so you can see new tweets as messages in your inbox. Best of all, you can reply or post to Twitter via e-mail as well.

To use Kabutr, all you have to do is grant is access to your Twitter account by logging in to Twitter through the service. Once you do, Kabutr will ask for your e-mail address and start sending you new tweets as they're posted to your inbox.

The address that you receive your tweets from is the address you can reply to or forward messages to if you want to post something to your timeline. Once you e-mail that address, Kabutr will take your message and then post it to your Twitter stream.

Kabutr relies on you to manage and filter your inbox for new messages. You'll get messages from "Kabutr Tweets" as you receive new messages. Each new tweet comes as a separate e-mail, so even the developers suggest that you create filters and rules to keep all of your Kabutr messages in a place where you can read them collectively instead of allowing it to flood your inbox.

All told the service works, and could be useful for people who are addicted to Twitter and find that they don't have mobile Web on their smartphone or they're in an environment where Twitter is blocked on their network. Replying to tweets is a little clunky, and it's not a perfect service - it's more useful for the occasional update and to stay on top of what's posted to Twitter when you can't log in, but it's no replacement for the Web interface or a full Twitter client. Back to top